Method of producing ornamental relief borders or foregrounds for photographs



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CROSBY M. FRENCH, OF GARRETTSVILLE, OHIO.

METHOD OF PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL RELIEF BORDERS OR FOREGROUNDS FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,779, dated April 29, 1884.

Application filed June 4, 1883.

I '0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CROSBY M. FR NcH, a citizen of the United States, residing in Garrettsville, in the county of Portage and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Producing Ornamental Relief Borders and Foregrounds for Photographic Prints; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, exact, and accurate description thereof.

The-nature of my invention eonsistsin pro ducing a drawing or design in relief with thick paints of rapidly-setting properties, said paints being made and composed and used as follows, viz: whiting, four ounces; gum-arabic solution, one-fourth of an ounce; sufficient water to make it of a proper consistency for working with a brush. Said paint to be applied to card-board, papier-mach, or any substance on which a design is desired. The design should be outlined upon the card-board or other sub stance with a pencil.

It is an advantage to the draftsman to place the drawing in such a position to the light that (No specimens.)

the raised surface of the paint will produce a shadow upon the card-board, thereby enabling 25 him to govern the intensity of the shadow by a heavy or light application of the paint. When the paint is dry, the drawing is to be photographed by placing it in such a position to thelight as above described, allowing but 0 little front light, which would flatten the effect of the raised surface of the design. The negatives thus produced are to be used for printing in borders to photographic prints.

What I claim is The method of producing photograph-hon ders, consisting in first making a bas-relief border of any desired design, then taking a negative of such design, and finally using this negativein-printing in, in conjunction with 40 a portrait-negative, as a border, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. a

- CROSBY lWI. FRENCH.

W'itnesses: R. S. WEBB,

N. V. LUZER. 

